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The Gothic Imagination is based at the University of Stirling, Scotland and provides an interdisciplinary forum for lively discussion and critical debate concerning all manifestations of the Gothic mode. Queries to Dr Timothy Jones on timothy.jones@stir.ac.uk.

MACABRE: A Journey Through Australia’s Darkest Fears: Forthcoming 2009
This anthology shows that although the Australian history of horror is relatively short, -the first short story was published in 1836- over the course of the years a considerable number of texts can be found thanks to the restless work of some researchers who have explored Australia´s dark past.
One of the editors of this anthology is Dr Marty Young, writer, publisher and scientist. He is also the president of the Australian Horror Writers Association (AHWA), www.australianhorror.com/index.php whi

Postmodern Specters: The Art of Kris Kuksi
David Punter has consistently theorized the nature of hauntings. The Gothic is haunted by the Gothic itself, the text and the subject are haunted by memory, by something “prior” that transgresses the boundaries of the law (1998, 14).
The art of Kris Kuksi points to this space of spectrality and places the viewers against hauntings. His grotesque, postmodern assemblages reveal what owes to be concealed from the eyes of the law. The haunted work of art manifests itself in that moment when the viewer becomes him/herself a ghost

About

The Gothic Imagination is based at the University of Stirling, Scotland and provides an interdisciplinary forum for lively discussion and critical debate concerning all manifestations of the Gothic mode. Queries to glennis.byron@stir.ac.uk or dale.townshend@stir.ac.uk